Spring · Blossoms · 桜 sakura
Awake! awake! I’ll make of thee My comrade, sleeping butterfly.
起きよ起きよ 我が友にせん 寝る胡蝶
okiyo okiyo · waga tomo ni sen · nuru kochō
Trans. B. H. Chamberlain, Bashō and the Japanese Poetical Epigram (1902), p. 320; lines re-broken